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Banksia Bytes Native Plants Sunshine Coast Banksia Bytes Native Plants Sunshine Coast [email protected] www.npqsuncoast.org Newsletter Native Plants Queensland November 2018 Number 17 OFFICE BEARERS Anne Windsor Chair [email protected] Marie Livingstone Hon Secretary [email protected] Joan Abercrombie Hon Treasurer [email protected] Marie Livingstone Events Coordinator [email protected] Wendy Johnston Banksia Bytes Editor [email protected] Pam Watson Excursions Coordinator [email protected] John Dillon Webmaster [email protected] From the Editor Summer is here and after the storms our garden looks refreshed and green. Winged fruits from the booyong, Argyrodendron sp. KinKin, are drifting down continuously and the quandong, Elaeocarpus grandis, is dropping those wonderful big round blue berries – hundreds of them! We blow them off the road every day and sometimes twice a day. They remind me of Chinese checker pieces. The topknot pigeons were busy up in the tree about a month ago but aren’t interested now – they must prefer the fruit green. Isn’t it great to see the different and interesting turns of nature. Enjoy Christmas and happy gardening with native plants in the New Year Wendy 1 Dates for your 2018 Diary Saturday December 1: 8.00 to 1.00 at the Community Library grounds, Obi Obi Rd, Mapleton. Buy your Christmas presents away from the shopping madness. NPSC have plants for sale from NativesRUs, Forest Heart and Joan Dillon. The Community Library has bargain books and there are a variety of stalls. If you want a Phaius australis – this is your opportunity. See you at Mapleton. Saturday December 1: 10.00am to 2.30pm NPQ Christmas Gathering in the rare plants section of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha where we will be hosted by Western Suburbs Branch. We are having a BYO morning tea at 10:00am and a bring-a-plate-to- share lunch at noon. We expect to finish our gathering around 2:30pm. Sunday December 9: at Mary Cairncross for an informative morning: 8.00 am if you are one of the lucky ones going walking with Spencer 9.00 am for registration for everyone else with a 12.30 finish. See the flyer with all the details. We will have visitors at this event, so all those NPSC members who are booked can enthuse other locals about native plants and habitat. All places are booked but we will run a waiting list. Polish up your signature recipes for December 9th as NPSC are catering for morning tea. 55 hungry bodies will need sustenance at 10.30 am. Pam Watson is working on the details and a request for goodies will be sent out soon. See the raffle request on page 4. 2 Dates for your 2019 Diary Sunday 10 February: AGM and property tour at the home of Kerrie and Richard Lonn, 922 Bald Knob Rd, Bald Knob. All the details will be sent closer to the time. Sunday 10 March: 9.00 am for a morning of informative talks at the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Gardens, Tanawha in conjunction with the Friends of the Gardens. What are the scientists and citizen scientists up to? Sunday 14 April: a walk in Triunia National Park led by Jacqueline Nolan, SCC Natural Areas officer. Triunia robusta Photo: G.Miller For Information about outings contact…. Pam 0447 488 673 Marie 0427 152 022 Chrissie 0408 792 227 News: Sunshine Coast Council are creating a native bee garden in Beerburrum - near where we started our walk. Thanks to Ann Ross, the planners contacted NPSC and we have had input into the selected plants. 3 A Raffle to Remember in December We all know about the traditional NP Sunshine Coast raffles and how they work… You bring a native plant or two, clearing out your propagating bench a little with wonderful plants that you can’t use but someone else will love. At the meeting you buy a ticket or three for a dollar or three, win a plant or three and take your plants home to sit on your propagating bench until you find exactly the right spot, with exactly the right amount of sunlight, exactly the right soil, exactly the right moisture and protection. When the planets align, you put the plants into their new homes, they flourish, your bench is a bit clearer and hey presto, you have room to begin the process again. Now for The Raffle to Remember in December: At the Mary Cairncross ‘Creating Habitat in Your Garden’ event on Sunday December 9th, we’re running a raffle, but this one will be open to everyone booked in for the morning of information, including many non-NPSC members. That’s 55 bums on seats, possibly $275 of raffle tickets, providing support for Marie’s next exciting plan to enthuse people about growing native plants. I’m inviting YOU to help make it a Raffle to Remember. As prizes there will be plants, there will be gardening gloves, there will be small gardening implements, there will be gardening hats, there will be home-made chutneys, jams, relishes and other goodies from native fruit and seeds, there will be water-bottles, sunscreen, restorative hand-cream, tea-towels with Flowers of Bribie Island, a copy of David Hockings’ reprinted book, perhaps offshoots from Auntie Flo’s Geodorum densiflorum , or plants grown from Uncle Harry’s Calostemma purpureum which has been in the family since 1925. What wonderful hampers there will be. And guess where they’ll be coming from? YOU. If it’s native- garden related, of interest to home gardeners, and in new, perfect condition, would you please consider purchasing or donating it? Karen Shaw has kindly offered to collect the donations, so please drop your goodies in to Forest Heart between now and Friday 7th December. EXCEPT PLANTS! If you have suitable plants to donate, give me a ring and I’ll co-ordinate a drop-off or pick-up with you. Forest Heart is at 20 Coral St Maleny. Open from Tuesday-Friday 9-4 and Saturday 8-1. Thanks Rafflers Extraordinaire. (And thanks Karen and Spencer) Chrissie McMaster 5494 1149 0408 792 227 [email protected] 4 Rhodomyrtus psidioides - Native Guava With Spencer Shaw Writing about this species is almost a commemoration. As a result of the introduction of Myrtle Rust Austropuccinia psidii into Australia and its arrival in SE QLD seven years ago, the majority of plants I’m familiar with are either dead or suffering drastically, with foliage cover reduced by over ninety percent. Surviving plants are not just stressed but in a critical condition, struggling to put on leaves, let alone flower. Without flowers there’s no fruit and without fruit there’s no seed and without seed (without the potential for the next generation), survival isn’t looking good for Rhodomyrtus psidioides. Hopefully I’m wrong and in other areas there are a few plants thriving and reproducing. Rhodomyrtus psidioides is the single representative of the genus Rhodomyrtus in South East Queensland and New South Wales. It is nearing its northern-most limit of distribution here on the Sunshine Coast (occurs as far north as Tinana Creek, Maryborough). In form, it is a shrub to small tree, that suckers readily (which can be great for a hedge) and can form small thickets. It naturally occurs in the ecotone between rainforest and tall eucalypt communities. Foliage is generally dense and the opposite leaves have a light, fruity smell when crushed. The white flowers can be produced en-masse and are one of the larger of our local Myrtaceae flowers, being up to 25mm across. Flowers are followed by a green to yellow fruit, 10-15mm, with a rough-textured skin. The fruit contain many seeds surrounded by a sweet pulp, sought after by bird, bat and bush food connoisseur alike. If you do find healthy specimens of this plant in your gardens, revegetation, or the wild, they are well worth propagating from to help ensure the ongoing survival of this species. Plants treated with fungicides in nurseries may look great when you buy them, but if they are susceptible to Myrtle Rust, it will catch up with them! 5 A Favourite Tree By Joan Dillon Years ago, when visiting the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, I noticed a large tree covered in relatively small but hibiscus-like pink flowers. It was essentially a park tree growing in a large expanse of lawn with space to develop a symmetrical spreading crown. A perfect spot to have a picnic in the shade. It was a tree I decided I just had to have! Not local native but at least it was Australian. It turned out to be a Norfolk Is. Hibiscus, Lagunaria patersonii. Remarkably, I located a young tree, possibly at Fairhill, and planted it in the early days on our anything but flat and open ground at Hunchy where the rainforest proceeded to grow around it. Naturally its growth habit is very different. Now a tall and narrow tree, still reaching for the light, it does produce masses of those attractive pink flowers in late spring/early summer. These can be seen where it emerges from amongst the macarangas, decaspermums, oleas and so on, or as a scattered carpet on the ground. I still love it, but it’s certainly a lesson in how location affects growth habit, something those of us undertaking revegetation programs see all the time. If you are serious about having the perfect specimen tree, plant it in the right place! The Right Place? By Wendy Johnston I purchased a Phaius australis many years ago.
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